Comment 11 for bug 283765

Option 1 is to convince python-apt to use the dpkg option --force-confnew. Option 2 is a workaround in the fglrx jockey handler to move away old fglrx configuration files (to .dpkg-old). However, for those we'd need to keep the handler up to date with possible configuration files.

Option 3 is to make fglrx not use any configuration files at all, of course :)